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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Modern craps developed from the ancient English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard through a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.

Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was acquired from the term for the bad luck throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. Many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he established the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.